Exhibitions:
Nobody Knows Where, Zhang Enli + Christopher Doyle, presented at Aurora Museum in Shanghai by curators Shaway Yeh and Davide Quadrio, has been extended to 20 September 2015.
Li Mu: Qiuzhuang Project
Li Mu – A Man, A Town, A Museum
19 September 2015–10 January 2016
Van Abbemuseum
Bilderdijklaan 10
Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Arthub has been collaborating for five years with artist Li Mu on his ongoing Qiuzhuang Project. The artist has completed a four-part documentary that illustrates the evolution of the project until now. The video installation travels to the Van Abbemuseum for the exhibition Li Mu – A Man, A Town, A Museum this month. The installation is to be screened alongside Li’s recently published book.
The documentary includes footage from a yearlong project Li Mu completed in his rural hometown Qiuzhuang reproducing artworks from the Van Abbemuseum’s collection with village residents. His documentary was presented for the first time in the exhibition Qiuzhuang Project, Sol LeWitt and Lu Daode at Aurora Museum this past June.
Arthub will present Li Mu’s documentary online for the month of September here.
BLAST!
BLAST! is a special project organized in conjunction with Art In The City Festival.
By opening a call for digital media entries to everyone residing in Asia, not limiting its reach specifically to artists and professionals from the creative world, BLAST! wishes to explore the accessibility of digital media.
Submissions were required to be no longer than 30 seconds and ranked by an international jury of experts from the world of digital and contemporary art:
Aaajiao Xu Wenkai—New media artist
Alessio Ascari—Kaleidoscope Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Roberto Gianstefani—Flatmind Co-Founder
Miltos Manetas—Painter, conceptual artist and theorist
Robin Peckham—LEAP Deputy Chief Editor
Yang Zhenzhong—Artist
Chair of the Jury: Davide Quadrio—Curator, Arthub Founder, co-curator of Art In The City Festival
The winning entries are:
Lei Lei (Recycled), Mei Jian (EXCLAIM), Shanhu Fool (The Universe Meningitis), Alex Wang (Blue Pearl), Wang Huagang (The Bride Almost to Stripe the Tramp’s Clothes), Wang Xiaoxin (My Green Land-lady), Wang Zhipeng (MANDALA), Zhang Zhaoying (Shopping)
The videos will be presented at three venues across Shanghai: MoCA Pavilion, chi K11 art space and BMW Brand Experience Center in September 2015.
Organizers: Art in the City Festival, Arthub and Flatmind, with the support of LIAN Cultural Development
Francesco Simeti at Suzhou Village (Yi Ou Lai)
NYC-based artist Francesco Simeti has been exploring what he defines as “trying to make sense of a bombardment of images that envelop us in daily life: not seeking to fix a core truth, but rather exploring the layers of meaning embedded in the sea of images that surround us.” In his installation Fenyun, dazed and confused at Suzhou Village (Yi Ou Lai), Simeti is presenting a monumental piece that brings his imaginary into the precious material of silk.
Publications:
KALEIDOSCOPE Asia
This September will see the release of the second issue of the biannual and bilingual (Chinese/English) sibling edition of KALEIDOSCOPE, an international quarterly of contemporary art and culture founded in 2009.
The opening section of HIGHLIGHTS for this second issue features Yan Xing, Lin Ke, Samson Young, Tromarama, Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho, Ha Chonghyun, Aki Sasamoto, Ben Wu, Sàn Art, Liu Wei, Huang Po-Chih, Zhang Ding.
The MAIN THEME investigates the notion of beauty in contemporary Asian art and visual culture, while the monographic survey in the MONO section is dedicated to Xu Zhen / MadeIn Company.
This issue’s promotional tour will hit Shanghai during Art in The City Festival and West Bund Art & Design; Beijing during Design Week; and will then be presented at regional events and art fairs, including Jakarta Biennale and Art Stage Singapore, as well as internationally at Frieze London and Art Basel Miami Beach, among others.
Arthub is a Shanghai based and Hong Kong registered not-for-profit platform devoted to contemporary art creation and diffusion.
